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follow the instructions in 5.1, "Updating firmware and BIOS" on page 246.
6.1.8 Installing the BMC device drivers
The device drivers are required to provide operating system support and in-band
communication with IBM Director. This section describes how to install the IPMI
device drivers on Windows and Linux platforms. The required device drivers are
listed in Table 6-1.
Table 6-1 IPMI required device drivers
Device driver
a
OSA
IPMI device
driver
OSA IPMI library
IBM ASR service
Microsoft IPMI
OpenIPMI
a. OSA Technologies, Inc. is part of the Avocent corporation.
The device drivers must be installed in a specific order or the installation can fail:
1. Either of the following drivers can be installed first:
– OSA IPMI device driver, then OSA IPMI library (mapping layer)
– Microsoft IPMI driver (any third-party driver must be uninstalled first)
2. IBM IPMI ASR service
Download the BMC device drivers
To download the drivers appropriate for your server:
1. Go to the Support for IBM System x Web page:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/x
2. Under Popular links, click Software and device drivers.
3. Select your product, for example, System x3850 M2 (7141,7144)
4. Use the category OSA IPMI.
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Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2
readme
file for considerations and limitations. To update the BMC,
Additional commands
Required for in-band communication with IBM Director and
BMC system utilities
This is the OSA IPMI mapping layer. Includes the BMC
Mapping Layer, which maps the dot.commands to IPMI
commands. Required for in-band communication with IBM
Director.
Required for Automatic Server Restart functionality
Microsoft IPMI driver interface, support for new IBM update
tools in Windows OS
Open source IPMI driver for Linux OS
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